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Labor
Podcast
Off the Rails: A Mega-Merger Between Rail Giants Would Be a Disaster for Workers and Communities
Railroad workers warn of devastating consequences if Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific merge.
Maximillian Alvarez
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Feature
"If I Must Die," A Poem by Refaat Alareer
A poem written before the author's death in an airstrike by the Israeli military.
Refaat Alareer
3
Viewpoint
Departments
For the First Time in the Trump Era, a Key Opportunity Is Here
This month voters repudiated MAGA in elections large and small across the country. Those of us on the left need a clear-eyed assessment of the political terrain and a vision that can look beyond the current fight.
Alex Han
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Feature
Investigation
Nowhere to Go: Inside the Texas Boarding Home System Where Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation are Widespread
As the United States faces the largest healthcare cuts in its history, Texas presents a frightening vision of the future of long-term care.
Ottavia Spaggiari
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Labor
Feature
They Worked Underground in the Uranium Mines. They've Been Surrounded by Death Ever Since.
The uranium industry left a trail of sickness and loss through Navajo territory, yet Trump is pushing for another mining boom.
Sarah Lazare
6
Departments
The Big Idea: Municipal-Owned Grocery Stores
With rising grocery prices and increasingly sparse options, more places are considering municipal-owned grocery stores to create equitable access to food.
J. Patrick Patterson
7
Labor
Podcast
Despite Trump’s Threats, Labor Leaders say They’re Not Going Anywhere
Union leaders David Huerta and Everett Kelley map out unions’ role in the fight against fascism.
Maximillian Alvarez
8
Culture
Assata Shakur’s Autobiography is the Road Map to Freedom We Still Need
The freedom fighter's complicated life calls us to test our tongues against the burning sting of truth.
Atarah Israel
9
Feature
The Right-Wing Issue
Losing the Plot: The “Leftists” Who Turn Right
What do we make of former friends who fell down the rabbit hole of the Right?
Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet
10
Culture
Dropkick Murphys’ Ken Casey Wants You to Wake the F*ck Up
The Nazi-punching, union-supporting punk rocker who's setting an example in the Trump era.
Kim Kelly
11
Politics
What Socialism Got Right
Writing "The Red Riviera" taught me that even flawed socialist systems offered insights into equality, solidarity, and the dignity of everyday life.
Kristen R. Ghodsee
12
Culture
“Art Is A Commons”
An exclusive conversation with aja monet on organizing from a place of love, the legacy of the Maroons and the urgency of art in these times.
Fatima Jalloh
13
Palestine
Culture
In The Face of Lifelong Terror, Gaza Speaks Truth To Power
A Palestinian asked how many deaths will be enough. He was recently killed.
Refaat Alareer
14
How Spotify Is Quietly Supporting the Military-Industrial Complex
Unbeknownst to most users, Spotify has a secret endeavor—backing the efforts of war.
Jennifer Stavros
15
Podcast
Trump Cuts Leave VA Hospital Nurses and Veteran Patients in a Crisis
Already burdened by years of funding cuts and understaffing, registered nurses who work at Veterans Health Administration facilities across the country are facing a crisis as the impact of the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce take effect.
Maximillian Alvarez
16
Labor
Feature
Visible and Invisible: How ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago’s Working Class
Fear, panic, hiding for days—this is the experience of families under assault by the Trump Administration
Sarah Lazare
17
Feature
The Most Hated Woman on the Internet
Haters--myself included--have pummeled Amanda Palmer so far beyond recognition that it’s disconcerting to hear her actual voice in her new memoir, The Art of Asking.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
18
Feature
Culture
Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship
In this reprint of "Peril" and "Racism and Fascism," Toni Morrison warns of the creative depths of fascism's reach.
Sherell Barbee and Toni Morrison
19
Viewpoint
There’s a Vanishing Resource We’re Not Talking About
Humans are losing our cultural diversity even faster than we're destroying the planet. Yet that diversity could be key to surviving environmental extremes.
Jessica Stites
20
Labor
Podcast
What Working People's Struggles to Survive The Great Depression Can Teach Us Today
Historian Dana Frank shares the stories of people who survived the Great Depression—and what lessons they offer working people today.
Maximillian Alvarez
21
Viewpoint
Poor Communities Are Paying the Price for "Free" AI Tools
AI data centers produce massive noise pollution, use huge amounts of water and keep us hooked on fossil fuels.
Dan Howells and Todd Larsen
22
Departments
What We Need Is a Popular Front Against Fascism
As fascism's grip only grows tighter, the popular fronts of yesterday can become blueprints for solidarity today.
J. Patrick Patterson
23
Labor
Palestine
Podcast
Graduate Student Workers Find Unity Amid Intense Repression
Amid Trump’s attacks on higher education and academic freedom, labor leaders are fighting back.
Maximillian Alvarez
24
Viewpoint
Dispatch
Climate
COP30 Isn't a Failure — It's a Farce
Why these climate summits can't solve the crisis—and why we should support Indigenous land struggles instead.
Peter Gelderloos
25
Politics
How Movement Organizers In Office Are Responding to the Rise of Authoritarianism
Elected leaders with Local Progress discuss how they are moving progressive policy forward while defending against the assaults of the Trump administration.
Michael Whitesides
26
Interview
Politics
Trump and the Rise of the Multiracial Right
Scholars Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes on the plastic politics of race in today’s GOP.
Alberto Toscano
27
Feature
Veteran on ‘American Sniper’: The Lies Chris Kyle Told Are Less Dangerous Than the Lies He Believed
Enough about Chris Kyle. Let’s focus our anger against the authorities and the institutions that craft the lies that the Chris Kyles of the world believe.
Brock McIntosh
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